The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1887-09-15
Is the Advocate Gone Daft2

The Christian Advocate still de-
cllnes to tell its readers what the
decision of the court Was in the Mar
tin College case. In its last num-
Der, however, it broke out into I'll
rade without parallel in its former
bitter and unfair treatment of the
case, from which its smartest read
ers may gather that the chancellor
got his law out of the law-books in
stead of the Advocate. The bulg-
ing-browed young editors head is
turned doubtless by reason of his
recent promotion to of1iciate under
the tallest steeple in Tennessee, and
he u.ay be moved somewhat by
malice because Of the failure of his
application tor the principalship of
Martin College, when he covertly
insults Chancellor Alternately by
insinuating in effect that he decided
the case for the college because he
is resident of Pulaski. That I'M
worthy fling is shame to the
Christian Advocate.
And the cool effrontery with
which he kicks law and precedent
around, skips over facts and knocks
truth into pi to get at the college
trustees to impute criminal per-
version of the trust TO them, is a
sight! He makes his 10000 read
ers understand that there has been
some awful violence done to justice
and right, and tells them to"beware
how you introduce into your boards
of trust or management persons
who are not members of your
church." and "all this trouble may
be traced to this mistaken liberali-
ty;" and "hardly trace ofMethod-
ism can be found in it to-day" and
1.-The so-called trustees have made
undue haste, under an official pro-
test, to renew the lease to the same
parties"
The pious reader of the Advo
cate who has learned to believe it
next to his bible reads these omi-
nous mutterings and he concludes
that the heathens have seized col
Iege that belongs to the church and
they are teaching all manner of her
estes and squandering money that
doesn't belong to them, when
the bulging-browed young editor
ia tittering in his sleeve at the
smart way he has imputed Grim
nality to other people without com
ing out squarely in words with It,
and how he has prepared the way
for sending Martin College to the
demnition bowwows with his read
ers in the event the supreme court
decides it by law instead of by con
nectiopalism, when he knows th,
president of the faculty to-day is q
Methodist steward and that eight
out of nine of the trustees are Meth
odists. He knows furthermore
that Mr.. Martin himself did moi
want to make a Methodist school
and he knows that Mr. Martin him
| self named the first board of trus-
Lees and named FIVE men who were
not Methodists. And yet thi:
bulging-browed young editor com.
plains at board Of trust that has
aearly twice as many Methodists il
it as Mr.. Martin named.
Bah! Brother Gambler! Hold
your temper, mon! These people
IRE not cuRans. Chancellor Aber-
nathy is en- honorable man. Thu
trustees are every one christians
The lady principals and assistant
are every single one pure, christis'
women-eminently and remarkabl,
so! Laws law, Brother Gambler
You can't kick things your way
And don't you bother yoursel
about the other denominations here
They have been remarkably dis
Greet. Your insinuations are with
out slightest grounds. It's tn
Methodists here who are sustaiDip.
? the trus tees. If there is a Method
ist resident here who is not sustain
= ing them be has never said so.
Finally, we protest that the Chris
tian Advocate is unfair and IN
e. christian in its treatment of thi
matter. 1t is plain that it sees tn
inevitable result and it is layin,
ground to st& b Martin College afte
the supreme court decides it. |
knows that conference has no RICH
to it and will not gain it,and it is al
ready showing it's teeth and begin
ming to snap and snarl, preparato
ry to open up with full pack afte
be decision and attempting t.
hound the college to its death. Tn
Advocate never has treated thi
matter fairly; or rather, Mr.. Can
iler has rot. There was no prov
ocation for this last assault. w
had all concluded to let the lawyer
finish it up, but Mr.. Gambler see
the opportunity slipping away ant
trumps up an excuse for bitter tt
rade in which he takes occasion t.
insult the chancellor and deride hi
| decision, IN order to lay ground TO
future onsiaughts. Its articl
means: eve are going to lose thi
suit, and this is to notify all preach
ers and people in this conference
that from this day forth they shall
boycott and stab Martin Colleg
and turn it's patronage to our Nash
vile school. And the preachers ar
further ordered TO be awake anC
when they see any college, male o
female, becoming so prosperous a
to interfere with our Vanderbilt O
our Price'sIschool, stab 1t instanter ?
1t throws suspicion on any caus
that Little Arch Hughes advocates
What can he be after? He neve
wastes his breath without there il